Magnus Egerstedt

Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering UC Irvine

  • Irvine CA

Magnus Egerstedt is a leading research on control theory, complex networks and robotics.

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Biography

Egerstedt’s research pursuits center on control theory and robotics. His work has resulted in innovations in remote environmental monitoring and precision agriculture, and he has worked extensively on the control and coordination of complex networks, such as multirobot systems, mobile sensor networks and cyber-physical systems. He led the creation of the Robotarium, a remotely accessible swarm robotics lab used by thousands of researchers around the world. He also helped develop SlothBot, a hyper-energy-efficient environmental monitoring robot. Egerstedt is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Federation of Automatic Control as well as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Areas of Expertise

Multi-system robots
Mobile Sensor Networks
Complex networks (e.g., optimization and control, resource sharing, dimension reduction)
Control Theory
Robotics
Cyber-Physical Systems

Accomplishments

O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award

2019

American Control Conference

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award

2018

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Creating the Next Award for Innovation and Impact in Robotics

2017

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

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Education

Royal Institute of Technology

Ph.D.

Applied Mathematics

2000

Royal Institute of Technology

M.S.

Engineering Physics

1996

Stockholm University

B.A.

Philosophy and Linguistics

1996

Affiliations

  • IEEE (Control Systems and Robotics & Automation Societies) : Fellow
  • International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) : Fellow
  • IEEE Control Systems Society : Vice President for Member Activities

Media Appearances

IROS 2024 Concludes In Abu Dhabi, Drawing Record-Breaking 10,000 Participants

Day of Dubai  online

2024-10-26

Dr. Magnus Egerstedt, Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, delivered the closing plenary session on ‘From Coordination to Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems,’ providing insights into advancements in multi-robot coordination inspired by ecological models.

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National Academy of Engineers names two UCI professors as new members

UCI News  online

2022-02-10

Magnus Egerstedt, the Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering, said, “With the election of these two faculty members, the UCI Samueli School is now home to 16 National Academy of Engineering members. It is a true testament of the research expertise and impact of our professors’ dedication to solving problems that benefit society.”

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From Sloths to the Soul of UCI

UCI News  online

2022-02-09

On a vacation with my family in Costa Rica a few years ago, I became fascinated with sloths – not because they were cute and cuddly but because I simply could not understand how such slow (and potentially quite tasty) animals could exist in an environment populated by jaguars and eagles. Their leisurely, low-energy lifestyle is somehow a viable survival strategy shared by pretty much all arboreal folivores (tree-dwelling leaf eaters) due to the dueling requirements of being big enough to break down and digest the complicated leaves, yet small enough to reside successfully among the treetops.

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Event Appearances

“Forward Invariance in Robotics: From Coordinated Multi-Robot Systems to Safe Learning”

IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems  Bangkok, Thailand

2019-11-18

“Long Duration Autonomy And Constraint-Based Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems”

International Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics and Control  Shenyang, China

2019-07-22

“Long Duration Autonomy And Constraint-Based Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems”

ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference  Atlanta, GA

2018-10-03

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Patents

Wire-Traversing Robot and Method of Operation

US20220009532A1

2022-01-13

An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a robot comprising a body, a processor, and a memory. The memory further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the body to engage a first wire to support the robot from the first wire, traverse the first wire, engage a second wire simultaneously while engaging the first wire, the second wire branching from the first wire, then after engaging the second wire, disengage the first wire and traverse the second wire.

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Articles

Composition of Safety Constraints for Fixed-Wing Collision Avoidance Amidst Limited Communications

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

2022

This paper considers how to ensure that a system of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can avoid collisions. To do so, a novel method is developed for creating a barrier function, which is similar to a Lyapunov function and can be used to ensure that a system can stay safe for all future times. After introducing the general approach, it is shown how to ensure that collision avoidance for two vehicles can be guaranteed for all future times.

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Coverage Control of Mobile Robots With Different Maximum Speeds for Time-Sensitive Applications

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

2022

This letter presents a coverage control algorithm for robots with different maximum speeds to effectively cover an area in terms of time of travel. In order to utilize the different speeds of the robots, the region of dominance of a robot is approximated by the set of points where the robot can arrive faster than any other robots in the team by cruising at its maximum speed.

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Collective Motion Planning for a Group of Robots Using Intermittent Diffusion

Journal of Scientific Computing

2022

In this work we establish a simple yet effective strategy, based on intermittent diffusion, for enabling a group of robots to accomplish complex tasks, shape formation and assembly. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach and rigorously prove collision avoidance and convergence properties of the proposed algorithms.

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